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Crazy NaughtiMess
...Crazy that you can listen to glistening gospel ministers missing Messiah's GoodNews non-sinister transNazarene re-sistering whole Earth uniting salvation Crazy Jewish lay teacher and EarthN......
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Gerald Dillenbeck
Categories:
contenting,
god, health, integrity, music,
Form:
Political Verse
Unholy Ruminations
...The opposite of life is death The polar opposite of eternal health is terminal disease, with unease perhaps lying/truthing in-between timelessness and untimely demise So too, my opposite ......
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Gerald Dillenbeck
Categories:
contenting,
death, grief, health, integrity,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Brilliant Resilience
...Singing with outside transcendent ego-theistic wealthy resonant voice while dancing inside Eartheistic healthy resilient choice RePresents ancient sacred reconnections of messianic verbal......
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Gerald Dillenbeck
Categories:
contenting,
dance, health, integrity, mental
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Wounding World
...I've seen Earth's epitaph: S/He did more than Her share to heal a broken world Which sometimes seems to invoke anger because I can touch what's broken and other times provoke merely sad becau......
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Gerald Dillenbeck
Categories:
contenting,
anger, anxiety, earth, earth
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
Another Storm
...Another storm threatens to come in, feeling my responsibility for uncaring and unresponsive history Fearing you more than loving us Setting out your pails and plastic tubs to catch cold ......
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Gerald Dillenbeck
Categories:
contenting,
allusion, culture, health, love,
Form:
Political Verse
A Year Ago
...About a year ago, as the COVID pandemic seemed to subside, then swell, happily ebb and yet impatiently flow Again, about a year ago I was noticing cold autumn nights bringing first frost ......
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Gerald Dillenbeck
Categories:
contenting,
appreciation, community, culture, earth,
Form:
Political Verse
Love Life
...As I look and listen, human lives explore individual purposes, like making breakfast, as divine love engages co-relational meaning, like preparing nurturing gifts of sacred EarthTribal communion......
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Gerald Dillenbeck
Categories:
contenting,
culture, health, life, love,
Form:
Political Verse
Why Systems Comfort
...What do healthy systems, naturally spirited, ecologically enlightened and ego-politically empowered swell Wellness anthro-economic networks wonder, often wander around what do wealthy mindb......
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Gerald Dillenbeck
Categories:
contenting,
health, integrity, passion, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
More Or Less
...The mind in constant change for more, to have or not and what to adore. Matters of love promulgating those needs, misconceptions attaching seeds. Contenting with natures faithful fruit, to honor......
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Robert Rittel
Categories:
contenting,
12th grade, forgiveness, growth,
Form:
Ballade
Badboy Monotheists
...Where do we think all this economic and politically empowering cooperative nutritional organically luscious imagination and ecologically exegetical orthopraxis started? George Lakoff speaks o......
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Gerald Dillenbeck
Categories:
contenting,
games, health, integrity, math,
Form:
Political Verse
Climate Evolutions
...First, competing dominant patriarchs become filled with climate toxic fear about long-suffered win/lose evolutions presuming Earth's great revolutionary Rapture. Second, hopeful matriarchs to......
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Gerald Dillenbeck
Categories:
contenting,
community, health, integrity, nature,
Form:
Political Verse
Adopting Adaptive Integrity
...I could change my mind about adopting you no more than change my heart's content about what is healthy and what is diseased absence of integrity and what lies somewhat uneasily in-between withi......
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Gerald Dillenbeck
Categories:
contenting,
appreciation, caregiving, earth, health,
Form:
Political Verse
Lead With a Follower
...Most effective teachers are perpetually curious students. Most accomplished chefs have voracious appetites for nutritional taste and nurturing fragrance. Most resilient lovers of here and n......
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Gerald Dillenbeck
Categories:
contenting,
caregiving, education, health, integrity,
Form:
Political Verse
Doublebinding Riddles
...When is physical restraint equipment also dirty laundry? When your daughter vomits all over her school bus transport harness, When she could have more safely, and less expensively, traveled ......
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Gerald Dillenbeck
Categories:
contenting,
anxiety, bullying, conflict, health,
Form:
Free verse
Sacramental Dialogue
...Let's do a bit of sacramental gaming. Oh no, Dear! That smells and sounds coldly inappropriate. What would your great-grandmother say? OK, well... how about a mutually refining discussion a......
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Gerald Dillenbeck
Categories:
contenting,
community, culture, health, spiritual,
Form:
Political Verse
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